Awesome Pictures Thread

[Nebu]

As an adult I've never forgotten my phone; I also carry a spare wall and car charger everywhere. Watches are useless.

Has to be a generational thing.  I bought my first cell phone when I was 40 and the idea of carrying it with me everywhere is still a foreign concept.  I find that there are still more days when I leave home without it than with it.

This thread needs more awesome pictures. 

[Merusk]

Wait till you become more adult.  You'll forget all kinds of shit.

Naw. He'll be just like every other 20-something I hear say this. Just like I recall saying it. "I'll never forget shit. I know where all my things are."

Did I mention I lost my keys for the office for 2 weeks because I forgot I'd thrown them under the wet bar while cleaning for my birthday? Because I did.

Picture.

[Sky]

There are things I've been trying to find since I moved into my house. Six and a half years. I swear I've seen them here.

[Malakili]

As an adult I've never forgotten my phone; I also carry a spare wall and car charger everywhere. Watches are useless.

It's also a bit more polite when you are doing something to take a quick peek at your watch than it is to dig your phone out of your pocket and put your entire attention on a screen instead of the person you're with.

[Samwise]

As an adult I've never forgotten my phone; I also carry a spare wall and car charger everywhere. Watches are useless.

It's also a bit more polite when you are doing something to take a quick peek at your watch than it is to dig your phone out of your pocket and put your entire attention on a screen instead of the person you're with.

On the other hand it's a lot easier to look at your watch constantly without realizing you're doing it.  I used to check the time CONSTANTLY when I wore a wristwatch to the point where when I stopped wearing one it felt freeing.  I have the same compulsion with my phone, but I usually notice my hand going to my pocket and can stop before I actually fish it out.

[Rendakor]

I just don't check the time that often, I guess; it's rarely important enough that I have to interrupt conversation. To me someone looking at their watch is just as impolite in their indication of "I gotta go" as someone doing likewise on a phone.

[Typhon]

As an adult I've never forgotten my phone; I also carry a spare wall and car charger everywhere. Watches are useless.

It's also a bit more polite when you are doing something to take a quick peek at your watch than it is to dig your phone out of your pocket and put your entire attention on a screen instead of the person you're with.

Someone (late 20s, early 30s) at work was trying to justify looking at his smart watch to check text messages as "more polite" then looking at his phone - "I could be checking the time".  I laughed and assured him that either activity (checking the time, checking text messages) sends a message that you have placed more importance on what is on the watch/phone than the conversation you are having.

I wouldn't have actually chimed in on this topic because I don't have strong Ms Manners streak but it stuck in my craw because he needed all his limited brain capacity to concentrate on the meeting we were having, not keep checking every new tweet/sport update his watch kept spamming at him.

[Venkman]

There's no such thing as getting away with checking the time. You're telegraphing it's time to wrap up whatever the other person is yammering on about. The only question is whether they're going to call you on it

A classically designed watch is a key piece of men's fashion accessory. Also shoes, good cufflinks, a pocket square, and various ties.

I'm have quite happily built a life around not associating within any circles where anything like "men's fashion" is a thing. And glad I did, because my wife and daughters eat up whatever I'd have put into a fashion fund anyway 

[Rendakor]

There's no such thing as getting away with checking the time. You're telegraphing it's time to wrap up whatever the other person is yammering on about. The only question is whether they're going to call you on it


I'm have quite happily built a life around not associating within any circles where anything like "men's fashion" is a thing.

+1

[Strazos]

I don't carry my phone around with me when I'm at the office. If I'm at a meeting or somewhere in the building, it's useful to have a watch to ensure I keep myself on-time, or to avoid missing an upcoming event.

[Teleku]

I've been working a job where I'm not allowed to have a cell phone (or any other mobile electronic device) anywhere near me the entire time I work.  It has.... taken some adjustment, heh.  Because holy god do I use my smart phone for absolutely everything at this point.  It's impossible for me to forget it, as I never walk out the front door unless I reach down and feel it in my pocket.

[Cyrrex]

We've talked about this before I think, but I still have this mantra I repeat to myself every time I leave in the morning.  Wallet, keys, lighter, phone, money.  I still say this every day, despite no longer carrying cash or needing a lighter.

[Shatter]

Ditto, I have my routine check before work...wallet, watch, pocketknife, badge, phone.  My wife on the other hand leaves shit behind all the time and its usually her phone...

[Sky]

I don't wear a watch, never have. But I always look at my wrist when it's time to wrap up a conversation.

Because that's what it means.

[apocrypha]

*looks at wrist*.

[Pennilenko]

I solve the whole looking at watch problem a bit differently. I let people know up front if I don't have enough time to chat with them. I usually offer another time where I can offer them my full attention. It has been a very successful tactic for making people think I actually give a shit about what they have to say.

[Samwise]

I image googled "awesome watch" in an attempt to segue back to pictures.

[apocrypha]

THAT I'd wear. For Halloween.

This is what I want:

[Sky]

I would totally crank Nu Shooz on that.

[Ironwood]

I image googled "awesome watch" in an attempt to segue back to pictures.

A Handcranked Enigma watch ?  Cool.

[IainC]

I image googled "awesome watch" in an attempt to segue back to pictures.

A Handcranked Enigma watch ?  Cool.

A $400k Cabestan. They only made 135 of them though so the chances are you'd pay significantly more for one now.

[DraconianOne]

I also carry a spare wall

 

[Nebu]

Trying to get into the spirit of the season...

[Samwise]

I made something very much like that for an office Halloween party once!  Except instead of rice crispy treat it was sticky rice pudding (I used a Jello brain mold to shape it), so it had a more authentic texture.   

[Rendakor]

I also carry a spare wall

 

Wall-charger. AC adapter. Pedantic asshole. 

[DraconianOne]

Wall-charger. AC adapter. Pedantic asshole. 

It's pedantic arsehole actually.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Wall-charger. AC adapter. Pedantic asshole. 

It's pedantic arsehole actually.

Here in 'Murica, we speak "Murican!  None o' that pansy assed Brit crap.

[Tale]

_{(sculpture currently on a beach in Sydney)}

[Ironwood]

Sure, but once they get out there, it's the fire.

[rk47]

[Ironwood]

Sure, but why ?

[Sky]

I wonder if that's the old Reaper demon they manufactured for id back in the 90s.

[Samwise]

That's pretty awesome.  Needs the "Romero Popsicle" in a secret compartment in the back.  

[IainC]

That's pretty awesome.  Needs the "Romero Popsicle" in a secret compartment in the back.  

It needs someone who worked on it to leave and spend the next few years promising that they are totally going to make a better one only to eventually produce something unusable and shit.

[Ironwood]

Supafly.